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April 23, 2025
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Red oval in table cell - came from doc where same table has no red ovals!

  • April 23, 2025
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In our newsletter we often run tables, and the formatting is the same; only the data itself is changed.

 

I copied a table from a past issue and pasted into the current one, and many of the cells in the new document have red ovals in them. No red ovals in the source table. Both documents have identical style sheets. I loaded the older's style sheets just to make sure..no change.

 

What accounts for this? Is there something in my copy / paste method that changed some cells?

 

Thank you in advance

3 replies

BobLevine
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 24, 2025

Check the cell insets. My guess is they're different in the source document than the one you pasted into.

jmlevy
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 23, 2025

It could also be that your text is aligned on the baseline grid (see paragraph style options) and that the grid increment is different between the 2 documents.

Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
April 23, 2025

Those ovals mean overset text. 

 

Most likely problem - your ParaStyles are based on other ParaStyles - but the last one in the "food chain" - is probably [Basic Paragraph Style] - and it's definition is different in your new document - than in the source document.

 

If you work on Windows - you could use free version of my ID-Tasker tool to get full structure of your ParaStyles - including their definitions. 

 

Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
April 23, 2025

Or Table / Cell Styles are different - same case with the most parent. 

 

Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
April 23, 2025

Or was there CharStyle active / preselected on the CharStyles pallet - when you were pasting your text?